jonathanstrange

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by jonathanstrange 6mo ago
As someone who is just planning to publish signed desktop software for Windows, this is deeply worrying. What reasons could there be for cancelling a certificate, especially when it has been used for years and the identity is already establ
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by jonathanstrange 6mo ago
Although it might reflect actual considerations of Israel and, by extension, the US, that's ultimately a very unreasonable take. Iran might not have been trying to build nuclear weapons in the past, as they claimed. Maybe they did, may
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by jonathanstrange 6mo ago
My girlfriend loves Postcrossing, she recently discovered it and we already have cards from all over the world hanging on our fridge.
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by jonathanstrange 6mo ago
I think it's best to ignore this kind of user feedback and focus on the users who really want the service or product and are willing download an app if necessary or use the web version if necessary. Popular opinions on apps/web an
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by jonathanstrange 6mo ago
EU can build token-generation hardware and that's the solution to the perceived problem. Such approaches have been used by banks for decades. It's not a "20 years project" to issue similar hardware to what my German bank
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by jonathanstrange 6mo ago
Essential EU government services cannot be devised on the hope that US companies will invent something that - contrary to current US legislation - will somehow provide the attestation services needed in a GDPR-compliant way without forcing
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by jonathanstrange 6mo ago
We're talking about an essential government service, not just another weather app. You have to look at this through the lense of national security, the debate about EU digital sovereignty, and the requirements of the GDPR in light of t
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by jonathanstrange 6mo ago
The alternative is a secure physical device and that's also the correct way to go if you insist on having online ID checks and take digital sovereignty seriously instead of making it a joke lip service like these implementers do.
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by jonathanstrange 6mo ago
How is that not lame?
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by jonathanstrange 6mo ago
Another German citizen here. I think what you're doing is illegal and will be blocked by German courts.
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by jonathanstrange 6mo ago
I've never obfuscated my mail and do not use server-side spam filters, yet have never had a problem with spam. Yes, I get maybe twice or three times as much spam than legitimate mail (if we include spam that was once (semi-)authorized
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by jonathanstrange 6mo ago
I'd be very happy with an internet without ads. Not that I see any ads anyway.
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by jonathanstrange 6mo ago
It's possible they are safeguarding for possible future changes of copyright law that would give Microsoft copyright over all Copilot contributions. This may sound paranoid but, as far as I know, exactly who counts as an "AI opera
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by jonathanstrange 7mo ago
You're making yourself redundant if you don't keep your actual programming skills sharp.
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by jonathanstrange 7mo ago
This wouldn't have happened if Kash Patel used Emacs, that's right.
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by jonathanstrange 7mo ago
I think it should be for a lifetime of the original author and non-transferable. The system is already rigged very much against artists, it's amazing how many people still contribute to culture under the given conditions. I don't
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by jonathanstrange 7mo ago
My biggest worry currently isn't even job-related, it's that corporations and authorities will use AI for customer/client relations but that this AI will not be allowed to make any significant changes and is therefore an utte
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by jonathanstrange 7mo ago
Other open formats are excluded, hence it's a lock in to one specific format. This cripples innovation. For example, you can no longer use an app that uses an open markdown format in the German administration.
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by jonathanstrange 7mo ago
The mandate should be for open, replicable, and fully published formats. If you want to be super-strict, add the requirement that there have to be at least two fully interoperable implementations under the control of two separate organizat
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by jonathanstrange 7mo ago
I'm definitely for creating EU directives that enhances digital privacy rights and sovereignty to block whole classes of privacy-endangering surveillance proposals in the future. That seems like the best solution to me. It's much
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by jonathanstrange 7mo ago
We made very good experiences with a realtor when we bought our apartment. Where I live, there is a lot of bureaucracy at play and the process is not easy to understand even when you have experts to ask. There have also been very sophistica
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by jonathanstrange 7mo ago
I've been waiting for ages for a Lisp that allows me to develop in one running system, creating minimized images with a tree shaker to distribute parts of the system for production when needed, and that never came (at least not with an
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by jonathanstrange 7mo ago
Because having one OS for a device with parental protections that parents can install is enough to achieve the goal, so the laws are obviously overreaching by mandating age controls for every OS when that's clearly not necessary. Havin
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by jonathanstrange 7mo ago
This is nicely written but I found some of the views strange. The most disturbing one to me is that the author wants news from social media and claims they have troubles getting news (e.g. criticizing the Washington Post). Not only is it
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by jonathanstrange 7mo ago
So these laws state that device makers need to ensure that there is at least one operating system with parental controls that the parents can install? That would be fine for me but AFAIK that's not what these laws state.
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by jonathanstrange 7mo ago
My view is that this must be left entirely to the parents. The only time a government should be allowed to interfere is when there are child abuse or neglect cases against the parents and the children are put under child protective care. It
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It doesn't matter whether the AI or a human learns from the software, the source code for the learning must come from somewhere.
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by jonathanstrange 7mo ago
That is not really the motivation behind GPL licenses. These licenses have been designed to ensure by legal means that anyone can learn from the source code of software, fix bugs on their own, and modify the software to their needs.
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Why? What's your problem with them? They do exactly what they're supposed to do, to ensure that future derivatives of the source code have to be distributed under the same license and distribution respects fundamental freedoms.
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by jonathanstrange 7mo ago
I don't think "we technically don't lie, we're only actively deceiving you" is a good defense strategy. The politicians you defend need to decide on a narrative for the justification, meandering between different on

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